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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seems to be briefly forgotten right after Big Joe is found?
(a) Big Joe's irritating behaviors.
(b) Grandma Wolf.
(c) Old grudges.
(d) Bertha.

2. What is Thomas doing when someone yells that gas is coming?
(a) Eating.
(b) On guard duty.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Writing a letter home.

3. What does Thomas wonder when they are first in the German's lines?
(a) Where everyone is.
(b) How the Germans manage to have dry trenches.
(c) Why it is so neat.
(d) Why their food smells so much better than theirs.

4. Why can't Thomas go anywhere?
(a) His leg is broken.
(b) He is wounded too badly.
(c) He is blind.
(d) They are surrounded by the enemy.

5. Why do the Germans begin to bombard their former trenches?
(a) To ruin the trenches.
(b) To explode the abandoned ammunition.
(c) To drive the Allies back.
(d) They do not bombard their former trenches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Charlie sent home?

2. What is the result of Charlie's refusal?

3. What does the German soldier tell Thomas when he aims a gun to Thomas' head?

4. What type of soldiers do Charlie and Thomas see in France?

5. What happens when Thomas falls?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Charlie and Thomas' company told to do one day?

2. Where are Charlie and Thomas sent and why are they glad at first?

3. What happens when they encounter a German soldier in the German trenches?

4. How do the men feel about Hanley's order, who voices that opinion, and what does Hanley say?

5. What does Thomas do on his one day of leave and why does that leave him feeling empty inside?

6. What is the new assignment at Wipers like?

7. Why is Molly at Charlie and Thomas' house one day when they return from work and what has she brought with her?

8. What happens when Thomas arrives in France?

9. What does the Colonel demand and how does he threaten Charlie's family?

10. How does Charlie bring Sergeant Hanley's wrath down on the regiment?

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